Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-05
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DAKOTA COMBINATIONS.
CLARK has been made signal service
station.
Chas III. Gerrand, of Huron, has
been adjudged insane.
Wheat in the Aberdeen district
averages twenty-fonr bushels per acre.
Stutsman county has twenty-eighs
pensioners receiving in all $776.l5 per
quarter.
The teachers institute, in session for
week at jamestown, had an average
attendance oil fifty.
The Dominican fathers, of Mime.
apolIs. are holding mission in Mitchell
this week in the Catholic church.
Wallie j. HILL, heretofore OF unblem-
ished character, has been arrested at
Deadwood charged with attempted
arson.
There are sixteen saloons in Dawson
county, IA in Mitchell. in Mt. Vernon
and one ia Ethan These saloons pay
an annual Incense of $50 each or au
aggregate for the saloons of the county
OF $4,000.
Burglars are operating again in Sioux
Falls. They raided l.. r. Butterfeld's
residence Sunday morning and Mr..
Tafs's barn Sunday night. and sue
oeeded in getting away with consider
able valuable swag.
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The Catholic mission at KinbalI ended
OF their church Sunday night, having
continued all the week and having been
| quite successful, an immense audience
being present at each meeting. The
Dominican fathers, of Minneapolis, pre-
sided,
! Cards are out for the marriage OF Wm.
M. Smith, one of Mitchell's live buei.
ness men, and Miss Ollie Fosd,ck,
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. Fosdick, of
Mitchell. The ceremony will OCCUR at
st, Mary's church at s o'clock p. m. Oct.
18th.
The Melissa dramatic companyy which
closed at Mitchell Saturday night after
big week, dishandsd, Several OF the
actors have attached the managers bag
gage for salaries. The company was
billed at Sioux .Falis and Canton for
| this week.
There are Q number of circumstances
| which indicate that the fire at Mitchell
Saturday morning was the work OF
incenderies for the purpose of plunder
in other parts of the city, but the scheme
failed beyond the destruction OF pair
OF valuable horses.
Acting Secretary Muldrow has re-
yersed Commissioner Sparks decision in
the case of Kate Walsh, who filed pre-.
emption in the Grand Forks district in
| 1888. He holds that she was honest in
her Intentions. and ignorance OF the law
caused all the trouble.
The south Dakota fair, just closed, ia
SAID by competent authority to have
been the most successful OF any like oc.
casion ever held in the west The ex-
hibits particularly in stock and horses
we're unprecedently large, while in farm
products, the fine arts and machinery,
the displays were large and varied.
At the Mitchell fair. one day last
week, MIS-. f. Il. Miller. of KimbalI,
had, it was supposed, O valuable watch
and chain stolen from her person, but
later developments proved that il had
been dropped by her. IT was found by
a lad who left it with Secretary Bush
nell. Mr.. Miller recovered the same.
The south Dakota club, an organiza-
tion for the promotion OF art and social
intercourse, has just been organized at
Canton. This SOCIAL club will inmedi-
stely fit out suite Of rooms, and expect
to develop into the leading social or
ganization of south Dakota. The charter
members are Delegate Clifford, Railroad
Commissioners BoyntoD, Col. Gale, T. j.
Fostick, A. l.. Carter, o. NJ. Seely, II. O.
Hichborn, g. e. Garter, q, Il. Hichborn,
s. B. Averill, d. Fl. Kean, George Frank
lin, E. s. O'Neill.